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Hummina, hummina, hummina…

…it’s the only thing we can say after reading the following statement from Brit TV producer Adam Tandy (the article, on UK comedy guide Chortle, is entitled “Comics Killed the Sitcom”):

Ever since the Young Ones we have turned to stand-up comedians as our mainstay of talent. It’s as though if you tell a joke and deal with hecklers, that somehow makes you a comedy genius and right for a sitcom.

Read the whole, short thing here.

Tandy says that the whole reason the British sitcoms suck these days is because they keep building them around standup comics. Turns out British TV suits are just as dumb as American TV execs.

With one exception. Avalon’s Jon Thoday said:

Comic timing is a difficult thing and most people would agree that comic acting is harder than straight acting, he said. Comedians tend to be better at it.

Thank you, Brother Thoday. While we stammer, Gleason-style, you frame our argument succinctly.

Thanks to FOS and Vancouver journo Guy MacPherson, for tipping us off.